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Relief of a Charioteer from Cyzicus
This chariot is driven by a pair of horses. The horses' mane and tail are plaited, and there are tassels around their neck (within the trappings). The chariot has 8-spoked wheels and the carriage is decorated with a lion's relief. The standing...
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Funerary Stele Showing a Banquet Scene from Thasos
This marble funerary stela depicts a banquet scene. The deceased is shown at the center of the stele. He reclining on a couch. His right arm is raised, expecting a wine cup, which is being filled by a young boy standing on the left side...
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Funerary Stele from Dascylium
This is the upper part of a long and narrow stele depicting a funerary cortege in two scenes. In the upper scene, two mourning women walk behind a funeral cart. In the lower scene, a woman and a bearded man sit on a couch. The woman's left...
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Limestone Block Showing Wrestlers and Musicians from Xanthos
On the left, two men are wrestling while on the right there are two musicians; the musician on the left seems to play the lyre. Archaic Period, late 6th century BCE. From Xanthos, Kınık, in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul...
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Statue of Athena from Leptis Magna
Athena is draped in a sleeveless Doric peplos with an apoptygma (folding over at the top), and attached on her shoulder and girdled above her waist. Her bust is too small for her arms and legs. She wears a round helmet. Marble. Roman Period...
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Statue of a Lion from Halicarnassus
This marble statue of a lion came from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Bodrum, in modern-day Turkey. Late Classical Period, circa mid-4th century BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).
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Statue of Marsyas from Tarsos
Marsyas was the Phrygian satyr who was skinned alive when he challenged Apollo to a musical contest and lost. Marsyas was usually sculpted alone, as an isolated statue. However, this statue was found as part of a group of statues, depicting...
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Attic Funerary Stele
Only this fragment of a large funerary stele has survived. It shows an old bearded man, who has frontal baldness, facing a horse head. Marble. Late Classical Period, 4th century BCE. probably from Attica Region, in modern-day Greece. (Museum...
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Funerary Stele from Amisus Showing a Farewell Scene
In this funerary stele, the deceased sits on a chair and appears to give a rounded object to a child (or maybe the reverse), who stands in front of him. Marble. Classical Period, near the end of the 5th century BCE. From Amisus, Samsun, in...
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Head of Alexander the Great from Pergamon
This head was found during the excavations of the lower agora of Pergamon; it seems that it had fallen there from one of the buildings on the higher city. The head reveals all of the characteristic features of the sculpted heads of Alexander...